No cut-and-dried answer. It isn't often that an experienced politician of such undeniable calibre is as coy and fumbling in the face of reporters' questions as was Martin Schulz at a press conference on Thursday (see yesterday's newsletter). Some of the reporters queried him about the EP Socialist Group's views (now renamed the “Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats”) on whether Jose Manuel Barroso should be the new president of the European Commission, irrespective of when...